SubscribeTo describe our house as chaos right now is deeply unfair to chaos. (Our house is in a state which would make chaos hit the smelling salts pretty hard.) We are packing, clearing, shredding, and sorting, in largely good-humoured fashion, although we’re taking it in turn to have our moments. We have found a company [...]
Bah! to cancer
Breast cancer had a pop at Stephanie. It really wishes it hadn't.
Category: moving
Three weeks
Three weeks from now – if all of the ducks currently shuffling around waiting for someone to tell them what to do actually get themselves into a line – we will be moving. Well, sort of. Joy will already be ensconced in Northumberland with her Grandma and Granda, as she starts her new school on [...]
A purge
As we are moving house soon, the Great Clear Out has begun. Rennie MacIntosh said something along the lines of, ‘Have nothing in your house that you do not believe to be beautiful or know to be useful’ and we have adopted that as our moving mantra. Alan and I are spending a couple of [...]
Look what we found
It’s perfect. Big rooms, lovely kitchen, a room just begging to be a library and space in the garden for a craft studio/writing space for me. Close to the family and dog-friendly (which I’m sure Joy will be along to tell you about in due course).
Offer made. Offer accepted. Fingers crossed.
(I wrote about our plans [...]
Guest blogger: Joy Tilbrook
Changes and Challenges
I’m Joy – Stephanie’s daughter, and I’m doing a guest blog post for my mum!
As most of you probably already know, our family is packing up and trundling off to Northumberland. So when I look at the stress of moving, the finance, the sorting, the dreams and the wishes of how perfect life [...]
The Answer
I am nervous about this post, which is probably why I’ve waited until I’m on holiday to publish it.
I’ve written a poem. I don’t know why publishing poetry feels more exposing than writing about every aspect of my dance with breast cancer, but it does.
Anyway, here goes. I hope you like it.
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The Answer
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